Guest guest Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 After many years of raising children where I don't ask them questions unless any answer they give is going to be okay, giving myself that same permission is truly liberating. WhenI ask myself " What do I feel like eating? " I have to be willing to accept any answer. When have I ever in my life only had three potato chips before? But at a party on Labor Day, I asked myself what I really felt like eating, and the answer was potato chips, so I had a couple, and the when I asked myself again, I didn't feel like them any more, and then later, what I really wanted was a piece of cheesecake, so I had just that--instead of dozens of chips, and a whole plateful of potluck food and THEN the cheesecake, and actually felt great during the whole party, rather than sick. But what psychologically twisted creatures we are, to have to give ourselves permission to eat the sweet, fatty, salty, whatever foods in order to realize that may not be what we want to eat at the moment... Tilley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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